Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 2 | I thought you were over for that |
| 3 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 4 | You were as cool as if you were out for a stroll , ’ Moran said . |
| 5 | If the last time you were out for a duck was eating a salade tiéde magret de canard in an austere brasserie , or your most recent celebrated run was rushing to the embrace of the Cricketer 's Arms as last orders was called , pausing briefly to adjust your googlie , all is not lost . |
| 6 | Ho how in fact di di did you keep on go you said mentioned you were out for seven months . |
| 7 | I had the distinct impression that you were out for the kill ! ’ |
| 8 | I actually believed you were in love with me , and all you were out for was a good time . ’ |
| 9 | Whatever you picked , you were in for it . |
| 10 | If you were in for 9 in the morning , you were out at 9.30 and the other fellow must not book in till 9.31 a.m . |
| 11 | But if you went over the hill , after school time , then you were in for a fairly rough time the other end , you were challenged and all sorts of things . |
| 12 | You never knew what you were in for when you got up in the morning . |
| 13 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully . |
| 15 | ‘ You have n't been pressured into any further interrogation , not only because of the condition you were in for so long , ’ Munro said , ‘ but because we know everything there is to know about Operation Eagle . ’ |
| 16 | If you stayed into watch the FA cup final on Saturday … you were in for a disappointment . |
| 17 | But if you watched Swindon 's game on Sunday … you were in for a treat . |
| 18 | So you were in for ten minutes and rushed them out and out again then |
| 19 | I thought we were on for charades . |
| 20 | WE were out for an airing with Air Hanson this week . |
| 21 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |
| 22 | Well everybody thought we 'd be out for a week or so , but we were out for a month or er more when these scabs started going back . |
| 23 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 24 | The omens were bad , and when the Hammersmith show eventually got going it seemed we were in for an all-time rock ‘ n ’ roll disaster . |
| 25 | I knew we were in for an enjoyable day as soon as I heard Nick Faldo say , ‘ Have you heard this one , Nick ? ’ |
| 26 | We were in for the worst . |
| 27 | There was no rest for the wicked as John Gribbin told New Scientist 's readers that the results of a Chinese study of the alignment of the planets meant we were in for years of terrible weather . |
| 28 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 29 | A feeling that we were in for an epic grew as we waited on the gendarme to begin a traverse across a snow ledge to the top of the fixed ropes , where the Germans , their clothes white with snow and ice , had set up another abseil . |
| 30 | We could hear them banging about , shifting things and wondered nervously if we were in for another move . |